Sentence examples for brief intimacy from inspiring English sources

Rather than shrinking this paradox, photography has served to magnify it, and from its most primitive days the medium has thrown up images that stir us with an intensity that outweighs their value as social documents; we can be rattled into brief intimacy with persons of whose acquaintance we will never have the pleasure.

At some point in the ungainly aftermath of our brief intimacy, she let me know — for I used to seek her out at parties, to take her temperature, as it were, and to receive a bit of the wisdom a love object appears to possess — how I should have behaved to her if I "had been a gentleman".

At some point in the ungainly aftermath of our brief intimacy, she let me know for I used to seek her out at parties, to take her temperature, as it were, and to receive a bit of the wisdom a love object appears to possess how I should have behaved to her if I "had been a gentleman".

When I photograph gay men, I'm trying to capture the brief intimacy gay men share when they hook up.

Under questioning from Mr Laidlaw, Brooks admitted that there was a "further brief period of intimacy" with Coulson in 2006.

Cianni usually shot the photographs after the interviews were conducted, so by then, the photographer and his subjects "had created our own brief history, of intimacy and vulnerability".

Most of these moments arise from Lucy's recollections of the brief period of distant intimacy she shared with her mother during her weeks of poor health.

The interest now is in something at once more oblique and more close-focused, something that offers a brief frisson of historical intimacy rather than a grand funeral oration.

Chattering feet and brief encounters captured the intimacy of the soft green enclosure in which they danced, ringed closely by clusters of office workers, casual strollers and schoolchildren who paused to watch.

Other dances on the various programs include last year's novelty, "Brief Encounters," an exploration of intimacy, and two of Taylor's most beloved works, "Arden Court" and "Esplanade".

Over the following hour-plus of increasingly lurid psychosexual drama, nothing comes close to the revelatory intimacy of that brief sequence, though writer-director Matthew Ross (not to be confused with actor Matt Ross, who directed "Captain Fantastic")..